how you say, Hello! in American? I am your

guest

and Hao is also my father's name

born foreign new jersey california carolina lemon drop that's

yellowface to you my friend but its

cool cuz we cool like that

still true cuz me Jew like that yes I'm

definitely some kind of foreigner not Tongva not

Tewa not Navajo or Cheyenne or Squamish or Maya but

I can tell you

That My America is great like Grated Queso in a plastic bag, 2.99

Great like the Great Recession Great like

Persona non Grata send me your tired your poor the

homeless get a job Great like

Instant Gratification

plunder pleasure, under pressure 

One Nation Great like  

Great Plains and Growing pains

and California where it never rains

and old Slaves who broke chains and sang Great songs like

sometimes I feel like

a motherless child

one more thing.

a man told me

"You are just as much of an American as I am"

he was In, de In for Indigienous his name was

Shawn, on Mt Shasta

we were talking because I look like Pocahontas this is a true story

he sat there in his brown skin and his almond eyes and his straight, black hair and he told me

You are just as much

of an American

as I am

and I sat there in my brown skin and my almond eyes

and my long, black hair and I said

Thanks, Shawn

nobody has

ever said that to me before